0 to make or become black -- zatáhnout se, potemnit, zčernat
1 to make to seem bad -- očernit, pošpinit
The scandal had blackened his reputation.
2 to clean with black polish -- vyleštit černým krémem
He blackened his boots.
There are more blackened ruins and there is more hunger as the third winter of the war approaches.
We have a blackening picture which must cause the gravest anxiety.
Much paper was blackened with much ink by learned gentlemen financiers and bankers, telling us why the wholesale prices went up or down.
You turned our perfumed garden into a blackened potato patch.
Instead, they are third parties who are blackened as a result of others' actions.
We shall be guilty of the basest perfidy that ever blackened a people's fame.
He cannot help their case, but he takes a delight in blackening the faces of his own countrymen.
Other unhealthy results of smoking included blackened smokers' lungs and rotten teeth.
